Earlier in the thread someone mentioned that after some optimisation they were able to get ~20MH/s from a PS3. Under load the PS3 uses in the range of 100-200W. To put that into perspective, an Antminer U1 has nearly 100 times the hashrate, consumes ~2.5W - and each is only worth a few dollars, because their hashrate is insignificant at this stage. It is a complete waste of time to talk about PS3s for bitcoin mining.
Any CPU coin miner for PCs would have to be rewritten specifically with the PS3 in mind, and nobody is going to bother because the Cell would be significantly outperformed by most modern CPUs.
Topic: PS3 miner? (Read 132358 times)
PS3 would suck in mining now
True mining BTC with a PS3 would suck right now,maybe mining a profitable CPU coin would be better.
Can ps3 even mine CPU coin?
I wonder if I can buy some off eBay, an refurbish them...
hmm...
hmm...
PS3 would suck in mining now
True mining BTC with a PS3 would suck right now,maybe mining a profitable CPU coin would be better.
PS3 would suck in mining now
Sell the ps3 and get a ASIC, its way way better unless you still play games with ps3 
Sell your PS3 on eBay. You will waste far more electricity than you will gain in BTC. You are better off selling the PS3 and buying BTC with the money you made from the sale. Even if your electricity is free, you will make more by selling it than you will in years. You will ruin the hardware before you get close to paying for it.
Don't waste your time.
Don't waste your time.
With what you get for the ps3 you can get an older asic. maybe an S1
Sell your PS3 on eBay. You will waste far more electricity than you will gain in BTC. You are better off selling the PS3 and buying BTC with the money you made from the sale. Even if your electricity is free, you will make more by selling it than you will in years. You will ruin the hardware before you get close to paying for it.
Don't waste your time.
Don't waste your time.
Well put.
Medow, sell those PS3's before they continue to depreciate! Keep one in case you become nostalgic.
Sell your PS3 on eBay. You will waste far more electricity than you will gain in BTC. You are better off selling the PS3 and buying BTC with the money you made from the sale. Even if your electricity is free, you will make more by selling it than you will in years. You will ruin the hardware before you get close to paying for it.
Don't waste your time.
Don't waste your time.
Mining with a ps3 seems like just another way to skip on the hardware. But it would be cool if the next generation systems do that.
Any one have a complete guide on mining using PS3 and how many MHs we can get per one PS3, i have many with out need.
dont spoil your ps3 please
... you will get nothing out of it.. 
Any one have a complete guide on mining using PS3 and how many MHs we can get per one PS3, i have many with out need.
Thanks. That would be ok for "starter mining". But a lot has to happen first e.g. PS4 get modded, some people try it out to make sure mining doesn't fry the PS4 
that is true you would probably have to mine at a lower intensity to because of how jam packed consoles are.
I have hope for it. It runs extremely cooly (and silently) after several hours of gameplay in a 30 degrees environment with no externl fan or air conditioning. I know its not mining, but games come close to using up the max power of the GPU (I presume).
Thanks. That would be ok for "starter mining". But a lot has to happen first e.g. PS4 get modded, some people try it out to make sure mining doesn't fry the PS4
that is true you would probably have to mine at a lower intensity to because of how jam packed consoles are.
you can do a fair comparison of any AMD based hardware by comparing the shader count of your hardware to something similar at this website
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
shader count roughly determines hashing power (adjusted for frequency)
manufacuring process (40nm, 28nm etc) determines power consumption.
IGN claims the shader count for PS4 is 1152 at 800mhz
so it would be roughly in the ballpark of a 7870 or R270
so between 300-350 khs
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
shader count roughly determines hashing power (adjusted for frequency)
manufacuring process (40nm, 28nm etc) determines power consumption.
IGN claims the shader count for PS4 is 1152 at 800mhz
so it would be roughly in the ballpark of a 7870 or R270
so between 300-350 khs
Thanks. That would be ok for "starter mining". But a lot has to happen first e.g. PS4 get modded, some people try it out to make sure mining doesn't fry the PS4
you can do a fair comparison of any AMD based hardware by comparing the shader count of your hardware to something similar at this website
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
shader count roughly determines hashing power (adjusted for frequency)
manufacuring process (40nm, 28nm etc) determines power consumption.
IGN claims the shader count for PS4 is 1152 at 800mhz
so it would be roughly in the ballpark of a 7870 or R270
so between 300-350 khs
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
shader count roughly determines hashing power (adjusted for frequency)
manufacuring process (40nm, 28nm etc) determines power consumption.
IGN claims the shader count for PS4 is 1152 at 800mhz
so it would be roughly in the ballpark of a 7870 or R270
so between 300-350 khs
will do
What about the Xbox 1, can i mine with it. If so how do i go about it?
this would be so nice
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